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LISTEN ON DEMAND: Dr. Virginia Bieluch On The Zika Virus

September 8, 2016 7:35 PMBy Ray Dunaway

File photo of a mosquito. (YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

Dr. Virginia Bieluch, chief of infectious disease at The Hospital of Central Connecticut, offers an update on the Zika virus. New research suggests the devastating disease can live in the eyes and spread via tears. Zika virus causes mild disease in most adults, but can cause brain damage and death in fetuses, which puts pregnant women at particular risk.